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...College students are young adults who have to make responsible decisions about where to go,” Rosen said. “We can’t lock them in their dorms...
...Hawks took a tight contest at the half and blew it wide open with a six-goal third quarter to lock up third place in Easterns...
...this: If eight or ten years ago you had told the average college student that in the future, millions of people just like them were going to publish startling facts about their lives—essentially, everything from a traditional diary (the kind we used protect with a lock and key)—I think they would have been surprised. Indeed, I think most of us would be surprised to think now about how much information we readily give out with the explicit understanding that it will be made public...
...members of the staff had complained that their authority was being undermined by prisoners' complaints and a successful court action for assault brought by one of the inmates. Within minutes the entire population of the facility, including murderers, rapists and petty thieves, had escaped. City officials advised residents to lock their doors...
When Ben & Jerry's began expanding rapidly in the 1980s, the company got a frosty reception from its bigger competitors. Cohen and Greenfield charged last year that Pillsbury was trying to keep a lock on the Boston market by threatening to cut off supplies of Hagen-Dazs to distributors who also carried Ben & Jerry's. Turning adversity into a publicity ploy, Ben & Jerry's gave customers thousands of T shirts and bumper stickers that poked fun at the Pillsbury corporate symbol by asking: WHAT'S THE DOUGH BOY AFRAID OF? Without admitting any wrongdoing, Pillsbury settled the complaint...